The Nemesis of Power: The German Army in Politics 1918-1945 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781403918123)

Sir John W. Wheeler-Bennett tells the story of how the German Army, having survived the disaster of 1918, proceeded to dominate the political life of the German Republic, exercising a virtually paramount degree of power and influence by its very withdrawal from the active arena of politics: and of how, when later it was mistaken enough to play politics instead of controlling them, it began a descent which only ended in abject defeat - militarily, politically and spiritually. The author reveals the extent of the Army's responsibility for bringing the Nazi regime to power, for tolerating the infamies of that regime once it had attained power, and for not taking the measures - at a time when only the Army could have taken them - to remove it from power. In this second edition a new foreword by Professor Richard Overy sets Wheeler-Bennett's classic text in context.

Author: S. Wheeler-Bennett, R. Overy
ISBN-10: 1403918120
ISBN-13: 9781403918123
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 03/01/2005
Pages: 874
Format: Paperback
Weight: 2.38lbs
Size: 8.52h x 5.54w x 1.88d